Vernal Express | 1953-06-11 | Page 9 | Brush Creek Diversion is Completed Section

A A I 1 41 g va amt Z 4 3 ak Z 4 i 74 I 1 murray ditch diversion near jensen built this year replaces old wooden structure brush creek diversion Is completed murray ditch companas Comp anys can al diversion on brush creek four miles above jensen Is ready for use according to william karren president debt the contract for the construction of the new heading which replaces a wooden structure built in 1940 and washed out in 1952 was awarded to bus halcli hatch and stan bobbins robbins both of vernal the diversion includes 88 89 cubic yards of reinforced concrete a and nd cubic yards of channel change and a dike which averages five live feet high and extends feet along the bank of the stream to prevent high water from hooding flooding the farm land of charles wise the ile structure has a throat width of 12 feet the diversion takes water from brush creek for both the murray ditch and burton ditch water users a total of ten far mere mers supplying water to acres of farm land the water tor for the burton ditch Is return ned tied to the creek below the structure then delivered at a new lobaton into their 11 canal 1 designs tor for the new diversion were developed by grant chugg and charles mccash engineers for the soil conservation ser vice the canal company is receiving financial assistance from the production and marketing administration under their flood program from the looks of a lot of girls today their hope chest la Is in their sweater news rec ord Luid borg kan